Glad you filed that bug report, as arrowKeys not being sent to a card would
be a real B*mmer. Thanks.
Richmond.
On 7.05.2016 22:30, Mike Bonner wrote:
> If there isn't a focused object, arrowkey is supposed to be sent to the
> card. This isn't happening in 8.
>> If you place an additional object (like a scrolling list field) onto the
> card and click it so that it has focus, and then hit the arrow keys, your
> object to move will behave as you expect. arrowkey is sent to the focused
> object, then passed up to the card. Its this bug.
>http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17470>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:24 PM, RM <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed,
>> and what justifies such change.
>>>> Richmond.
>>>> On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>>>> If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you can
>>> do something like this:
>>>>>> on arrowKey theKey
>>> if the selObj is empty then pass arrowKey
>>> put loc of the selObj into theLoc
>>> put 1 into D
>>> if the shiftkey is down then multiply D by 10
>>> switch theKey
>>> case "left"
>>> subtract D from item 1 of theLoc
>>> break
>>> case "right"
>>> add D to item 1 of theLoc
>>> break
>>> case "up"
>>> subtract D from item 2 of theLoc
>>> break
>>> case "down"
>>> add D to item 2 of theLoc
>>> end switch
>>> set loc of the selObj to theLoc
>>> end arrowKey
>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 7.05.2016 01:07, JOHN PATTEN wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>>> I was going to use the arrow keys to move an object, something like
>>>>> what Devin wrote up a while ago:
>>>>>>>>>> on arrowKey pWhich
>>>>> # determine some way to designate which object is to be nudged
>>>>> put the long id of btn "test" into tSelObj # for example
>>>>> switch pWhich
>>>>> case "left"
>>>>> put -1 into tXamount
>>>>> put 0 into tYamount
>>>>> break
>>>>> case "up"
>>>>> put 0 into tXamount
>>>>> put -1 into tYamount
>>>>> break
>>>>> case "right"
>>>>> put 1 into tXamount
>>>>> put 0 into tYamount
>>>>> break
>>>>> case "down"
>>>>> put 0 into tXamount
>>>>> put 1 into tYamount
>>>>> break
>>>>> end switch
>>>>> move tSelObj relative tXamount,tYamount
>>>>> end arrowKey
>>>>> Šand after a few tests in LiveCode 8, I can¹t get anything to budge
>>>>> with the arrowkeys? I opened the same stack in LiveCode 7.06 and it
>>>>> works fine. Something change or is this a bug in 8?
>>>>>>>>>> Thank you!
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